{"id":617,"date":"2026-07-03T12:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T16:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=617"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T13:54:25","slug":"laura-kelly","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/people\/laura-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laura Kelly is Senior Quality Advisor&nbsp;in&nbsp;the Office of Quality&nbsp;Initiatives&nbsp;at Carleton University.&nbsp;She joined Carleton&nbsp;after spending 15 years working in the community health, public health, and child and youth mental health sectors.&nbsp;Kelly\u2019s&nbsp;professional experience has&nbsp;centred&nbsp;on helping organizations strengthen planning,&nbsp;evaluation&nbsp;and continuous improvement practices to better support the communities they serve.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelly&nbsp;is a creative facilitator who enjoys working with diverse teams to build capacity in strategic planning and implementation, evaluative&nbsp;thinking&nbsp;and continuous quality improvement. Her work emphasizes collaboration,&nbsp;learning&nbsp;and the development of practical approaches that enable organizations to assess progress and achieve meaningful outcomes.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics from the University of Ottawa, a Master of Public Health from Simon Fraser University, and a Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation from Carleton University.&nbsp;Kelly&nbsp;is also a Credentialed Evaluator with the Canadian Evaluation Society and holds a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt designation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the Towards Carleton@100&nbsp;strategic visioning process,&nbsp;Kelly&nbsp;contributes&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;in evaluation, strategic&nbsp;planning&nbsp;and continuous improvement to support thoughtful reflection, learning and future-focused institutional development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":618,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Laura","cu_people_last_name":"Kelly","cu_people_initials":"LK","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[44],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-617","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-leadership-team"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Senior Quality Advisor (Office of Quality Initiatives)\u00a0","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":852,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/617\/revisions\/852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/strategic-plan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}